Acetylene-gas generator.



PA-TENTED NOV. 13, 1906.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7. 1906.

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JOSEPH FRANK ORMISTON, OF GOLUSA, CALIFORNIA. ACETYLENE-GAS GENERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

Patented Nov. 13, 1906.

Application filed May "7, 1906- Serial No. 315.595-

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JOSEPH FRANK ORMIS- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oolusa, in the county of Colusa and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Acetylene-Gas Generators and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in acetylene-gas generators, and more particularly to means for feeding the carbid to the water.

The object of the invention is to improve and simplify the construction and operation of apparatus of this character, and thereby render the same more durable and less exensive.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved generator and gas-bell. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical sectional view through the generator, and Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line 3 8 in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings by numeral, 1 denotes a water-tank having a reduced or upwardly-tapering top 2, upon which is secured the reduced cylindrical lower end 3 of a carbid hopper or receptacle 4. The parts 2 3 are formed with annular flanges 6, which are clamped together by bolts 7, a packing 8 being interposed between said flanges, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The bottom of the carbid-hopper is tapered or funnel-shaped and terminates in a spout 9, which is disosed in the lower cylindrical portion 3. The feed of the carbid through the spout .9 is controlled by a swinging gate or valve 10 in the form of a rectangular plate mounted to swing from a pivot 11. The valve 10 has pivoted upon the center of its lower or free ed e, as shown at 12, the lower end of the link 13, which latter has its opposite end pivoted to a crank-arm 14 upon a horizontallydisposed rock-shaft 15. The latter is -mounted in suitable bearings 16 17 upon the sides of the portions 3 of the hopper, and one of its ends extends through the stuffing-box 18 upon the bearing 17 and has secured upon it an arm or lever 19. Upon one end of this lever is slidably mounted and adjustably secured a weight 20, and the other arm 21 of said lever is adapted to project into the path of a trip 22, provided upon a depending rod 23, carried by a vertically-movable gas-bell 24. The latter is mounted to slide in the usual gas-storage tank 25, which is connected to the generator by the pipe 26, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The weight 20 acts to normally hold the valve 10 in its closed position, (shown in full lines in Fig. 2,) and the trip 22 when the bell 24 lowers sufficiently engages the end 21 of the lever 19 and swings the latter to rock the shaft 15, and thereby swing the valve 10 to its open position. (ShownindottedlinesinFig.2.) When the valve is thus opened, carbid is permitted to drop from the spout 9 into the water in the generator-tank 1. In order to facilitate the feed of the carbid and prevent it from choking in the spout 9, I provide upon the center of the valve-plate 10 an upwardly-curved agitator-arm 27, which has an arrow-head 28 u on its upper end. It will be seen that as t e valve 10 is opened and closed the agitator and spur 27 will loosen the carbid and facilitate its discharge from the spout.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as defined by the appended claim. v

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an acetylene-gas generator, a water- 1 0 tank having at its upper end a carbid-receptacle provided with a funnel-shaped bottom terminating in a laterally-inclined dischargespout, a valve at the discharge end of the spout, hinged at its upper side and provided 1 5 on its inner side with a bent arm, extending into and upwardly in the throat of the discharge-spout and having a barbed head at its upper end, a rock-shaft journaled in bearin s at the upper end of the tank, having a rock IIO arm in said tank and having a lever outside In testimony whereof I have herennto set of the tank and provided with a Weight, and my hand in presence of two SllbSCIlblIlg W1ta link connecting the rock-arm to the valve, l nesses.

in combination With a gas-receiver having a JOSEPH FRANK ORMISTON. movable element provided with means for Witnesses: engaging and operating the Weighted lever, C. W. CRU'TGHER,

substantially as specified. E. SEAWELL. 

